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Public interviews, readings, and talks will take place with Chic’s Nile Rodgers (Hotel Meyrick, July 19); actors John Mahoney and Rondi Reed (Hotel Meyrick, July 19); and Fintan O’Toole will interview Mary Robinson and later Tom Murphy and Garry Hynes (Town Hall, July 27).

Joe Canning scored 1-8 as a young Galway team defeated Limerick in a lively challenge in Athenry on Saturday evening. The home side won by 2-20 to 1-18.

The end of April will see books, readings, writers, prose, poetry, and theatre celebrated and enjoyed throughout the city when the Cúirt festival begins next week.

Druid Theatre company has announced the cast members for the DruidMurphy project, an ambitious staging of three classic dramas by the Tuam born playwright.

Druid co-founder and actress Marie Mullen and the Attorney General Máire Whelan will be among the recipients of the 2012 NUI Galway Alumni Awards.

South Galway still echoes with stories of Antoine O Raifteiri , and 18th century blind poet and fiddle player in the ancient bardic tradition. His best known poems are probably Cill Aodain, and Anach Cuan. He never wrote his poems down, but they were collected by Douglas Hyde, and Lady Gregory, from those whom he taught them to, after his death.

This Saturday Druid will present a free public reading of the play The Chooky Brae, by the acclaimed Scottish writer DC Jackson in the Druid Lane Theatre at 12 noon.

A Ballindine man was convicted of drink driving and given a three-year driving ban at Claremorris District Court this week.

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre is offering a creative writing course in The Galway People’s Resource Centre Training Room, Hynes Building, St Clare’s Walk, Merchants Road.

Garry Hynes, the internationally acclaimed theatre director and Druid co-founder, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from UCD.